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AS-22 Euryale

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Euryale Class Submarine Tender:
  • Laid down in 1941 as Hawaiian Merchant, a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 15 April 1943
  • Commissioned, USS Euryale (AS-22), 2 December 1943
  • Decommissioned, 7 October 1946
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 December 1971 and transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by MARAD in 1972
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,600 t.(lt) 13,830 t.(fl)
    Length 492' 6"
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 21'
    Speed 17 kts.
    Complement 1,403
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 8.500hp
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    Euryale 32k Euryale (AS-22) at anchor in 1946, place unknown. Courtesy Randy Guttery
    Tendertales Web Site
    Euryale 89k Euryale (AS-22), at Sasebo, Japan, in November 1945. She has three large Japanese submarines alongside. They are (from inboard to outboard): I-401, I-14 and I-400.
    US Navy photo # NH 97841 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donated by Evelyn W. Guthrie, 1987.         		US Naval Historical Center
    Euryale 96k Euryale (AS-22), flying her long "homeward bound" pennant, as she arrives off San Francisco, CA., circa 22 February 1946.
    US Navy photo # NH 77403, from the collocations of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.         		US Naval Historical Center
    Pelias 220k Overhead view of, from front to back,
    Griffin (AS-13),
    Euryale (AS-22),
    Aegir (AS-23), and
    Pelias (AS-14)
    moored in the Reserve Fleet, at Mare Island Navy Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. with 52 mothballed World War II submarines, circa 1946     		Darryl Baker
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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